When a 10,000-year-old prairie is plowed up to plant corn or a savanna is consumed by a strip mall, these once-grassy ...

Fields can look recovered within years of farming ending, but the plants growing there tell a very different story.

Restoring damaged grasslands can take years, making it difficult to know whether conservation work is genuinely helping ...

Grasslands go by many different names and are made up of two main types: tropical — also known as savannas — and temperate. The two types appear similar, but have different kinds of soil and are ...

Recovered grasslands need more than 75 years of continuous management to regain their biodiversity because specialized pollinators are slow to return. Kobe University's finding underscores the ...

Grassland habitats are places that receive more rain than deserts but less precipitation than forests. Most of the plants ...

To many, the Western grasslands still reflect the essence of this country: the vast plains that begin with prairie and bump up against the Rockies, home to herds of cattle and the cowboys that run ...

Banner image: Bison grazing in Konza prairie, Kansas, where fire is needed to suppress woody encroachment. (Credit: Barbara van Horn / Reprinted with permission from Suding et al., Science 377:594 ...

From bird watching to prairie tours and live music, Prairie Fest gave visitors a new way to understand and appreciate the ...

Ancient ocean sediments reveal that Africa’s open grasslands began forming millions of years earlier than previously thought, ...